Improvement in side drawers for sewing-machine tables



w. a. ANDERSO N & a. a. GHELDS.

Side-Drawers for Sewing-Machine Tables.

Patented A ug.18,1874.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

WILLIAM G. ANDERSON AND GEORGE G. OHILDS, OF WORCESTER, MASS.

I IMPROVEMENT IN SIDE DRAWERS FOR SEWING-MACHINE TABLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 154,167, dated August18, 1874; application. filed January 16, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WM. G. ANDERSON and GEO. G. GHILDS, of Worcester,county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Side Drawers for Sewing-Machines, ofwhich the following is a specification:

The nature of our invention consists in the construction and arrangementof a set of side drawers for sewing-machines, which will fit either theright or left side without altering either the legs or top of themachine; also, in the locking or fastening device for said drawers, allof which will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which our inventionappertains to make and use the same, We will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which-Figure 1 is a perspective view, showing our set of drawers attached tothe side of a sewing-machine stand. Fig. 2 is a transverse verticalsection of the drawers. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section of thesame, and Fig. 4 is an inside view of the lock of the top cover.

A represents a casing, of any suitable dimensions to contain two or moredrawers, B B, of the usual rectangular form. 0 is the top of the casingA, made only about half the width of the casing, the balance of the endor front and back pieces being curved or rounded, and the receptacleformed in the upper part of the casing closed with a rolling cover, D.

The side drawers now generally used with sewing-machines are square atthe top end,

and require the same sized projection to cover them, and, in most cases,require new tops to be made and the old ones thrown away, increasing thecost. By cutting off one side and using a rolling cover, the size isreduced onehalf at the top, leaving a flat surface, 0, from two to threeinches, more or less, which is all the space usually left on machinesnow used. The top 0 of the drawers fits under the part of the machinetable or top which projects be yond the stand, and is fastened to thesame.

The rolling cover D is provided at each end with an arm, E, pivoted onthe inside of the case A. The arm E at the front of case has its lowerend rounded or circular, and held by cars f f close to a disk, a, whichis fastened on the inside of the front of the case. In the rounded orcircular part of this arm E is a square orifice, b, for the reception ofthe squareended key. This orifice b is covered on the inside by aspring, G, attached to the arm, so that it will be necessary to pressthe key inward to raise the spring before the square end of the key willobtain sufiicient purchase in the orifice b to turn the cover. The reararm, E, is simply pivoted to the inner side of the back of the case, andit is at its lower end provided with a projection, z, to operate againstthe upper end of a vertical slide, G, arranged in a recess on the inner-side of the back of the case. In this slide are apertures cl d,corresponding in position and number with hooks ii, attached one uponthe inner end of each drawer B, so that, when said drawers are pushed,the hooks i will enter the apertures d, and, when the rolling cover D isclosed, a spring, h, attached to the slide will draw the same upward andcatch all the hooks 5, thus locking the drawers. When the cover D isturned back, the projection z presses the slide downward, releasing thehooks i, and thereby unlocking the drawers.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, i s--- V l. The combination of thearm E, provided with projections z, and perforated slide G, with thehooks 'i i on the drawers B B, substantially as and for the purposesherein set forth.

2. The combination of the perforated plate G and hooks 11 03 with thespring h, substantially as shown and described.

3. The front arm E, provided with a square orifice, b, the disk a,provided with ears ff, and the spring G, all combined and operatingsubstantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our invention we hereuntoaffix our signatures this 14th day of January, 187 4.

WM. G. ANDERSON. GEO. G. OHILDS.

Witnesses:

F. T. BLAOKMER, DAVID MANNING, Jr.

